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- CultureGrams Online
- Find out about other countries, including daily life, customs and history. Most country reports including maps, photos, national anthem, flag, statistics, recipes and biographies of well known citizens.
- Kentucky Encyclopedia Web Edition
- The Kentucky Encyclopedia was commissioned to mark the bicentennial of statehood in 1992. Its 2,000-plus entries are the work of more than five hundred writers. Their subjects reflect all areas of the commonwealth, and this standard reference tool pulls together facts about the people, places, things, and events of the Bluegrass State. The web edition of The Kentucky Encyclopedia contains all the entries in the print edition enhanced for the online environment. It was created and is maintained by the University Press of Kentucky and Morehead State University.
- Kentucky Virtual Library
- Access to library catalogs and 40+ databases, including encyclopedias. Designed to support the KY Virtual University, but helpful for college and high school students and citizens of Fayette County.
- World Book Encyclopedia
- A powerful reference tool that includes encyclopedia articles, multimedia, and primary sources.
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Internet Links
- AAA
- Find AAA reccomended hotes restaurants and attractions in the United States and Canada.
- American Factfinder
- Population, housing, economic and geographical data from the United States Census Bureau.
- American Rhetoric
- Database of 5000+ speeches, many with the full text, audio and visual clips
- Ask Oxford
- Search the Compact Oxford English Dictionary online; get answers to questions on English, language, grammar, spelling, quotations, and usage and more on this site from the Oxford University Press
- Bartleby.com
- Easily searchable free full text editions of many subjects including reference, classic poetry, fiction and nonfiction.
- CIA World Factbook
- Quick, concise information about many of the world''s countries.
- Citing Sources (Duke University Library )
- Concise, easy to use reference, shows examples of citing sources in APA, MLA, Turabian and Chicago styles.
- Citizendium - the citizen's compendium
- A "citizens' compendium of everything," is an open wiki project aimed at creating an enormous, free, and reliable encyclopedia. Improves on the Wikiipedia model by adding "gentle expert oversight" and requiring contributors to use their real names.
- Common Errors in English
- Hundreds of the most common errors made by writers.
- Country Studies
- A great source of information about many countries of the world.
- Foreign Word.com
- Translate words from dozens of languages online.
- Guinness Book of World Records Online
- Search the online version of this famous book for the smallest, largest, shortest, longest, most, least and etc.
- Hoover’s Online
- Provides corporate and industry overviews, company web sites, and current business updates.
- Intute
- Intute is an online service providing you access to the very best Web resources for education and research. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites and write high quality descriptions of the resources.
- Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report
- This Center For Disease Control (CDC) website contains timely information and statistics for many different health issues.
- Old Farmer's Almanac
- Useful information for all walks of life since 1792.
- OneLook Dictionaries
- 2048445 words in 417 dictionaries now indexed.
- Online Conversion
- Convert just about any measurement.
- Online Writing Lab (OWL)
- Find help with writing, including style guides and grammar suggestions.
- opensecrets.org
- From the Center for Responsive Politics, a non-partisan, non-profit research group ... that tracks money in politics, and its effect on elections and public policy.
- Sperling’s Best Places
- Research America''s cities for cost of living, home value, tax rates and more.
- SYMBOLS.com
- Online encyclopedia of graphic symbols.
- Thomas Register
- Find manufacturers, suppliers and services in the U.S. and Canada.
- United States Military Casualty Information
- Find military casualty information and statistics 1980-current.
- World Health Organization Statistical Information System
- Find global health infomation and statistics.
- WWW Acronym and Abbreviation Server
- From the Network Acronym and Abbreviation Server.
- WWWebster's Dictionary
- Webster's Dictionary & Thesaurus online.
- Zip Code Directory
- From the U.S. Postal Service. Searchable database, tracking packages and address changes.